History Main / FadingIntoTheNextSong

** ''Black Sabbath'': "Behind the Wall of Sleep" → "N.I.B." and "Sleeping Village" → "Warning"

* On Music/MarvinGaye's 1971 album ''Music/WhatsGoingOn'', most of the songs segue into each other.

* Amy Grant's "A Christmas Album" has "Emmanuel", "Little Town", and "Christmas Hymn" segue together.

** The second disc of ''Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence'', being [[EpicRocking one 42-minute song divided into eight tracks]], also does this. In general Dream Theater does this a lot, even between albums. The first disc of ''Six Degrees'' begins with the static from the end of ''Scenes from a Memory'' and ''Train of Thought'' begins with a fade in from the end of ''Six Degrees''.

So, you have this song. It's pretty cool, but the fadeout is kind of long. What do you do? Continue the fadeout into the beginning of the next song on the album, and copy-paste the intro of the second song over the fadeout. In written music, this is referred to as a "segue," pronounced like "Seg-way" (hence the PunnyName).

* Music/TheAvalanches' ''{{Music/Since I Left You}}'' and ''Wildflower'' are entirely gapless.

This is a common practice in mix albums for "dancefloor" ElectronicMusic genres like [[HouseMusic House]] and {{Trance}} since the objective is to create a seamless experience; it is usually referred to as "crossfading", after the crossfader slider on a mixer. Live songs and medleys don't count. {{Concept Album}}s most definitely count. This refers ''only'' to when a song's fadeout spills into the beginning of the next one — sound effects, abrupt switches without gaps and other transitions don't count.

* A staple technique of ''Music/PinkFloyd'', with nearly every album having at least one example. It's particularly prominent on ''Music/TheDarkSideOfTheMoon'', ''Music/WishYouWereHere'', ''Music/{{Animals|1977}}'', and ''Music/TheWall'', all of which have the majority of their transitions in this style. Exceptions include ''most'' of the breaks marking the ends of album sides in the vinyl era, but not all; CD editions of ''Dark Side'' have a small crossfade from "The Great Gig in the Sky" to "Money", and ''The Wall'' has a crossfade from the last song ("Outside The Wall") and the first song ("In the Flesh?").

* Used a lot by Music/SufjanStevens. On ''Enjoy Your Rabbit'', there are 14 tracks, and only two or three track transitions that ''aren't'' blended together. On ''Illinois'', the second half of the album is mashed into two pieces: "Prairie Fire that Wanders About" → "The Great Godfrey Maze" → "The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades" → "They Are Night Zombies!" → "Let's Hear that String Part Again" → "In this Temple" → "The Seer's Tower", then "The Tallest Man, the Broadest Shoulders" → "Riffs and Variations on a Single Note" → "Out of Egypt".

* Music/TheRollingStones: "Ventilator Blues" → "I Just Want to See His Face" on ''Music/ExileOnMainSt''.

* Music/DaftPunk does this on ''Music/{{Homework}}'' with "Daftendirekt" → "WDPK 83.7 FM" → "Revolution 909" → "Da Funk", and on ''Music/{{Discovery}}'' with "One More Time" → "Aerodynamic" → "Digital Love".

* Music/MikeOldfield, creator of Music/{{Tubular Bells}} and other very long instrumental pieces, carried his penchant for long compositions over to his poppier, more commercial records, particularly ''Platinum'' and ''Discovery''. From ''Tubular Bells II'' on, instead of writing very long tracks, he splits his albums in several tracks that run together. On ''Tubular Bells 2003'', a re-recording of the 1973 album, he split the album into ''17 tracks'', which compose two pieces of uninterrupted music, just like the original.

* Music/{{Scorpions}} "Crazy World" Album has each song segue into each other.

* Music/{{Pendulum}}:

* Music/{{Underworld}}: A recurring trope on their albums, as well as their live shows, for most of TheNineties. Band-member Darren Emerson being a DJ no doubt helped this.

* A staple technique of ''Music/PinkFloyd'', with nearly every album having at least one example. It's particularly prominent on ''Music/TheDarkSideOfTheMoon'', ''Music/WishYouWereHere'', ''Music/{{Animals}}'', and ''Music/TheWall'', all of which have the majority of their transitions in this style. Exceptions include ''most'' of the breaks marking the ends of album sides in the vinyl era, but not all; CD editions of ''Dark Side'' have a small crossfade from "The Great Gig in the Sky" to "Money", and ''The Wall'' has a crossfade from the last song ("Outside The Wall") and the first song ("In the Flesh?").

* Most of Music/{{Red Hot Chili Peppers}}' ''Blood Sugar Sex Magik'' is full of this, with the most noticeable example being "Power of Equality" → "If You Have To Ask" → "Breaking The Girl".
* Music/{{Nightwish}}: "Kuolema Tekee Taiteilijan" → "Higher than Hope" on ''Once'' and "The Islander" → "Last of the Wilds" on ''Dark Passion Play''.

* Music/{{Justice}}: On ''Cross'', "Genesis" → "Let There Be Light" → "D.A.N.C.E.", "Newjack" → "Phantom" → "Phantom Pt. II", "Valentine" → "Tthhee Ppaarrttyy" → "DVNO", and "Stress" → "Waters of Nazareth" → "One Minute to Midnight".

** "Equinoxe 1" → "Equinoxe 2"

** Otherwise, he often connects pieces of music or entire record sides (''Music/{{Oxygene}}'', ''Equinoxe'', ''Rendez-vous'', ''Chronologie'', ''Oxygène 7-13'', ''Oxygène 3'') with noise or sound effects.

* On the Crane Wives album ''The Fool in Her Wedding Gown'', the wind chime sound effects at the end of "Glacier House" lead into the ones at the start of "Tongues & Teeth".

* Music/BrianWilson's ''Music/{{Smile}}'' is one crossfade after another - songs are bunched into a few suites.